Urban climber Alain Robert, better known as the “French Spider-Man”, scaled an 600-foot high skyscraper in the business district of La Defense, outside Paris on Wednesday.
It took him 55 minutes to climb the outside of the Engie skyscraper.
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Robert’s other notable climbs include the Empire State Building in New York, the Taipei 101 in Taiwan, and the Petronas Towers in Malaysia.
He set a Guinness World Record in 2012 for climbing the 984 foot, Aspire Tower, in the Qatari capital Doha, in just 1 hour, 33 minutes and 47 seconds.
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